Love and war--classic ingredients of the romantic epic--provide the conflict
for this story of the strong-willed Nova Scotian Evangeline, who refuses
the proposal of one respectable man because she loves another. When war
erupts, the people of her village are displaced; her search for her lost
love takes her to Louisiana and then to a Philadelphia almshouse. An impassioned
adaptation of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline
showcases del Rio sensationally suffering in one of her finest roles.
1929, U.S., B/W with color tinting, 35mm, 87 minutes.

SPECIAL THANKS TO BILL
ROBENS AND R. P. MAY (WARNER BROS.), ROB STONE (UCLA FILM AND TELEVISION
ARCHIVE), BRIAN CLAUSSEN (SWANK) AND BRYAN COFFEY (MOMA CIRCULATING FILM
DEPARTMENT) FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND FOR PROVIDING THE PRINTS.